LearnEnglish Podcasts - Free English listening

Our popular “UK Life” audio series is now available in full for free. Learn about life in Britain, from football and cars to food and drink.

Listen to everyday conversations recorded by native British English speakers in our LearnEnglish Podcasts series, and improve listening skills. Listen to podcast hosts Tess, Ravi, Adam and Rob chatting with different people and talking about different everyday topics, such as their favourite celebrities, making plans for the weekend, having a dinner party and which cities they like to live in.

The app helps you learn everyday English by providing 60 episodes and over 20 hours of free listening about a wide range of topics, as well as great new features that help you listen and understand the conversations.

LISTEN, READ AND CHECK THAT YOU UNDERSTANDIn every episode, listen and read along with a moving audioscript. The audioscript gets highlighted to help you focus on listening. Comprehension questions come with each episode so that you can check your listening and whether you understand the conversation.

HOW THE APP HELPS YOU LEARN EVERYDAY ENGLISHThe best way to improve your listening skills is to listen to a little bit every day and try to listen to a wide range of different topics in English. When you’re listening, try to remember or write down as many of the main points as possible.

FEATURES BACKGROUND PLAYING AND OFFLINE ACCESSThe audio plays even when the screen is turned off. This is a popular request from our users – thank you all for your feedback.You can also:- download episodes onto your tablet or phone and listen offline- delete episodes after you’ve listened to them to create space on your tablet or phone. Re-download episodes when you want to listen again.

We love to hear from our users! If you have any feature requests, feedback or need technical support, get in touch with us through the Feedback and Support button in the Help screen in the app.

PERSONAL DATA AND PRIVACYYour privacy is very important to us. We do not collect any personal information about you. We do track how the app is used, such as which episodes are most but we only use this information to improve the app and the podcast content. Learn more about the British Council's privacy policy here: https://www.britishcouncil.org/organisation/transparency/policies/information-security-privacy

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ABOUT THE BRITISH COUNCIL’S ENGLISH LEARNING APPSThe British Council creates top English learning apps for learners of all ages. You can download our apps to practise grammar, vocabulary and listening. Visit our website to see all our apps www.britishcouncil.org/mobilelearning.